Storage-battery tool



Jan. 6, 1925. 1,521,786

.C. E. MOSS STORAGE BATTERY TOOL Filed A ril 10, 1924 INVENTOR. ('JJ. Mass ATTORNEY.

' Patented- Jan. 6,1925.

. useful Improvements in the following is a spec1ficatron, reference being had to the accompany- I 'tools and more particularly to Fi ure 1.

. removed by the ordinary pry the terminal from the UNITED STAT-Es CLARENCE moss,

STORAGE-BATTER? 'EooL.

or PONCA orrY,

. 4 "1,521,73 PATENT OFFICE.

OKLAHOMA.

7 Application filed 5 m 10, 1924. Serial no. 705,661,

To all whom it may concern: v Be it known that 1-,.CnAnaNon E. Moss, a citizen of the United States, residin at Ponca City, in the county of Kay and gtate of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and Storage-Battery Tools, of which ing drawings.

This invention relates to storagebattery a device for removing the terminal connectors of storage batteries upon the terminal, posts thereof. It is well nown to those familiar with the art that the securing elements of the terminals'of storage batteries become corrodec 111 use and accord ingly are often impossible to remove, thus rendering clamped lug terminals engaged with the soft metal terminal posts of the storage batteries very difficult to remove from these terminal posts. L t

Arr important object of the invention is to provide a simple, efficient and durable tool for rapidly removing these terminals without danger to the storage battery which often results when a corroded terminal is means. It will be more readily understood when it is explained that often in attempting to remove these terminals mechanics will employ a screw-driver or some similar implement to terminal post. The strain of the screw-driver or other implement being unevenly applied to the terminal, there is a tendency to bend the post and a consequent tendenc to misplace the plates and crack the plate forming the cover of the storage battery ce 1.

These and other objects I attain by the construction shown in drawings, wherein for the urpose 0 il ustration is shown a preferre embodiment of my invention and wherein:-

Figure'l is a side elevation of a tool constructed in accordance with my invention applied to remove a connector from a bindgr igure 2 18 a similar view partiallysec; tioned, the connector being shown as. shifte upon the binding post;

Figure'3 is a sectionteferring now more particularly "to the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a bar having a-pair of spaced slots 11 formed .therethrough adjacent sides of the -bar the acconip anying I It will on the line 5-3 of a bore 12 codirectional with the slots 11 formed therethroug'h at the center. Through the bore 12 is sli ably directeda pressure bar 13, while through the slots 11 are directed' a pair of jaws ends thereof providedwith inturned hooks 15. The slots 11 are elongated longitudinally of the bar so that they areof greater width than the jaws 14 and the jaws 14 are accordingly capable of a limited movement longitudinally of the bar. The opposite are provided with slots 16 communicating with the slots 1 11 and through these slots extend the shanks 17 of headed elements 18 forming pivots 'a-ws 14. Through the ends of the bar are directed adjusting set screws 19 which abut the outer faces of the jaws within the slots 11 to limit- ,tliemovement of the jaws at the pivots thereof toward the outer ends 0 the bar. 1

To the upper end of the pressure bar 13 are pivotally connected a pair of bellcrank levers 20; The arms 21 of these levers whic are pivoted to the pressure bar 13 at their ends extend horizontally and the other arms 22 thereof extend upwardly to form handles. To the arms 21 ad' acent the outer ends thereof the upper ends of the jaws 14 are pivotally'connected, as indicated at '23. In the operation of the device the pressure surface of the battery terminal T and then 14 having the lower or the bar has its lower end engaged against the upper the screws 19 are adjusted to bring the hooks 15 of the underneath the lower surface jaws ' of the lead terminal L and preferably until the adjacent faces of these hooks contact opposite sides of the battery lug handles 22 are then grasped and movedtowa-rd one another with the result that the pressure bar 13 is forced downwar ly with a considerable force and the lead terminal L withdrawn from the battery terminal T.

be obvious that by device no strain whatever is placed upon the battery terminal which. would tend to deform or the same and that by the use of-this tool the lead terminals can'be readily and rapidly removed from the battery. It \vill'he obvious that the construction of the device as hereinbefore set forth is capable of a considerable rangeof change and modification without in any parting from the spirit of my invention and manner de- 1 ion the use of this I accordingly do not limit. myself to such 1 1,521,786 specifie structure except as hereinafter levers directed through the mounting bar at claimed. opposite sides of the pressure bar and hav- I claim z- 1. A terminal remover comprisin a mounting bar, a pressure bar slidably directed through the mounting bar, a pair of levers directed through the mounting bar at opposite sidesflof the pressure bar and having the pivots thereof shifta-ble longitudinally of the mounting bar, a pair of bell cranklevers each having the end of one arm levers extending upwardly to form handles, the upper ends of the first named levers being pivoted to the first named armsof the bell cranklevers at points spaced from the ends thereof.

2. A terminal remover comprising a mounting bar, a pressure bar slidably directed through the mounting bar, a pair of mg the pivots thereof shiftable longitudinally of the mounting bar, a pair of hell .crank levers each having the end of one e bell crank levers the ends thereof, the lower ends of said first named levers being provided with hooks for engagement beneath a terminal connector mounted upon a terminal the end of Which-is engaged by thelower end of the pressure bar.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

CLARENOEE. MOSS. 

